Leighanna at the University of Nebraska Press blog has a nice post on why science fiction and fantasy get no respect. Her best point, conclusively established by walking into any bookstore: “It isn’t that we have more crap. It’s that the crap is the first thing people see.”

Finally, and perhaps most important, the answer to the question that has bothered all of us since childhood: if I dig straight down, where will I end up? (I don’t want to spoil it too much but if enough of us in Sioux Falls dig straight down and get a big enough desalinization facility, we would have a good start on solving future water problems). (Via Amy on the Web.)

Sometimes
I wish I had a hiding place
where no one could give me their shit
for the dreams that I have